CMOS Setup Utility
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IRQs Activity Monitoring
The following is a list of IRQs, interrupt ReQuests, which can be exempted much as
the COM ports and LPT ports above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the
attention of the operating system, it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur. When
the operating system is ready to respond to the request, it interrupts itself and per-
forms the service.
When set
On
, activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power
management mode nor awaken it.
IRQ3 (COM2)
IRQ4 (COM1)
IRQ5 (LPT 2)
IRQ6 (Floppy disk)
IRQ7 (LPT 1)
IRQ8 (RTC Alarm)
IRQ9 (IRQ2 Redir)
IRQ10 (Reserved)
IRQ11 (Reserved)
IRQ12 (PS/2 Mouse)
IRQ13 (Coprocessor)
IRQ14 (Hard Disk)
IRQ15 (Reserved)
Enabled
Enabled
Enabled
Enabled
Enabled
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
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IRQs Activity Monitoring
